It was the break of morning and ashley woke up to find herself alone in the bed. She checked the clock wondering if spencer had left for school. 5:32 AM, she wouldnt even normally be awake at this hour. A rush of cold, bitter, nervousness shot through ashley’s veins as she worried.

She sat up and turned on the lamp noticing that it was even too early for the sun to be awake. She searches through the bedroom hoping maybe she had just gotten an early start. She wasnt anywhere in their room.

She knew there was something wrong and wasnt quite sure how to fix it. Upon furthering her search she opened the bedroom door to search further in the house. A light was shinning from the baby room, only stretching across the floor a bit as it escaped from beneath the door.

Ashley opened the door slowly and spencer looked up at ashley, not expecting her obviously. "What are you doing?" ashley asked. She hadnt heard the babies crying for hours, but spencer was sitting in the rocking chair in the corner, baby in her arms.

"I dont know. Avery was crying a couple of hours ago, and when i came in to rock him back to sleep, i just…" Her voice drifted as she lightly shrugged her shoulder. "Just wanted to stay with them for a while." Spencer never once looked into ashley’s eyes, she just watched avery sleep in her arms. His little thumb was in his mouth and he was sucking on it. The image was too adorable for words.

Ashley walked over and looked at avery and smiled. Then she kneeled down in front of spencer resting her hands on her knees. "He’s beautiful isn’t he?" ashley spoke as she lightly touched his face. She looked up at spencers gaze. "You have school in a couple of hours, why dont you go back to bed?" ashley suggested, noting the dark circles beneath spencers eyes.

"Im not tired." Spencer said flatly as she sat still holding avery gently in her arms, but firm enough to say she would never let him fall.

Ashley brushed back some of spencers hair and tucked it behind her ear. "Look, at you. You’re dead tired." ashley’s voice was soft and sweet and she sounded concerned. Spencer pulled her face away, but tried to cover up her actions, and was successful.

"Im fine ashley, really." Spencer said with an equally soft tone in her voice. What a cover up.

Ashley slid her hand from spencers knee to the top of her thigh. "Will you go to bed if i go with you?" Ashley asked suggestively raising an eyebrow. She figured that was what the problem was. She figured spencer was upset that they didnt have sex the night before, but that wasnt it at all.

Spencer seemed to have enjoyed this new placement of ashley’s hands. She soon brushed it away and began to stand up. She walked over to avery’s crib and placed him in it softly and gently. She turned and faced ashley. "You know what?" Spencer began inhaling a deep breath. "I think im just going to go take a shower." Spencer left the room and gathered her towel and change of clothes.

She walked into the bathroom and stripped herself of her clothing before getting into the hot water. She hesitanly stepped her body into the complete heat of the water. The steam rose and carressed her body gently as she washed.

Ashley went into the bedroom and sat on the edge of the bed. She sat their think what could have been wrong. There was something going on with spencer, and she couldnt pin-point it. She figured she would try one last time to get a better read as too what was going on with spencer. She walked into the bathroom and joined spencer in the shower.

"What are you doing?" Spencer asked with a smile and a laugh.

"Well, im taking a shower." Ashley stated obviously. She looked down at her feet and saw the bar of soap laying at the bottom. "Spence, you should know better. Dont drop the soap." Spencer and ashley laughed. Ashley reached around spencer and grabbed the nob the controlled the tepurature. She turned it heavilly to her right causing the water into and icy chill going down and beating the heat into non-existence.

"HOLY-" spencer stopped. She was shocked at the cold of the water.

TBC